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Sensitivity to habitable planets in the \textit{Roman} microlensing survey

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2021-10-20 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We study the \textit{Roman} sensitivity to exoplanets in the Habitable Zone (HZ). The \textit{Roman}~efficiency for detecting habitable planets is maximized for three classes of planetary microlensing events with close caustic topologies. (a) The events with the lens distances of Dl7D_{\rm l} \gtrsim 7 kpc, the host lens masses of Mh0.6MM_{\rm h}\gtrsim 0.6M_{\odot}. By assuming Jupiter-mass planets in the HZs, these events have q0.001q\lesssim 0.001 and d0.17d\gtrsim 0.17 (qq is their mass ratio and dd is the projected planet-host distance on the sky plane normalized to the Einstein radius). The events with primary lenses, Mh0.1MM_{\rm h} \lesssim 0.1 M_{\odot}, while their lens systems are either (b) close to the observer with Dl1D_{\rm l}\lesssim 1 kpc or (c) close to the Galactic bulge, Dl7D_{\rm l}\gtrsim 7 kpc. For Jupiter-mass planets in the HZs of the primary lenses, the events in these two classes have q0.01q\gtrsim 0.01, d0.04d\lesssim 0.04. The events in the class (a) make larger caustics. By simulating planetary microlensing events detectable by \textit{Roman},~we conclude that the \textit{Roman}~efficiencies for detecting Earth- and Jupiter-mass planets in the Optimistic HZs (OHZs, which is the region between [0.5, 2][0.5,~2] AU around a Sun-like star) are 0.01%0.01\% and 5%5\%, respectively. If we assume that one exoplanet orbits each microlens in microlensing events detectable by \textit{Roman}~( i.e., 27000\sim 27000 ),~this telescope has the potential to detects 3535 exoplanets with the projected planet-host distances in the OHZs with only one having a mass 10M\lesssim 10M_{\oplus}. According to the simulation, 2727 of these exoplanets are actually in the OHZs.

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@article{arxiv.2110.05751,
  title  = {Sensitivity to habitable planets in the \textit{Roman} microlensing survey},
  author = {Sedighe Sajadian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05751},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures